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Never knowingly undersolved.Tue, 31 Mar 2015 21:30:24 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: Wil Ransomehttp://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/02/02/financial-times-13907-by-cinephile/#comment-181696
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:59:27 +0000http://fifteensquared.net/?p=39825#comment-181696Thanks Gaufrid for explaining about ‘discernable’, but I’m still pretty unconvinced by your saying ‘It is one of Cinephile’s clues where you have to mentally insert ‘something’ to make the definition grammatically correct.’ This seems to be saying ‘oh well, it’s Cinephile, and he can get away with this sort of thing’. I don’t think he can. It’s ungrammatical whoever does it.
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Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:53:03 +0000http://fifteensquared.net/?p=39825#comment-181544Hi Wil, As often you draw my attention to some infelicities that I overlooked and now think I should have spotted for myself.

In 11ac, it must be that ‘discernable’ is intended to be the anagram indicator. I think it’s a jolly poor one now I consider the matter. I have a dictionary (The Sage) that tells me that ‘discernable’ is an acceptable spelling but defines it as having a slightly different shade of meaning from ‘discernible’. I find it curious that, according to these definitions, ‘discernible’ would be the marginally better choice to indicate an anagram.

And in 2dn, I can find no definition that allows ‘dog-end’ as a verb and am now inclined to think that the definition may be indefensible.

Many on-line dictionaries, including Collins and Merriam-Webster, give ‘discernable’ as a (less common) variant of ‘discernible’ but I agree with you that it does not stand up as an anagram indicator.

Regarding 2dn, this definition has been used before on several occasions (sorry I cannot remember the setters). A dog-end, or cigarette butt, would be ‘put in [an ash] tray’. It is one of Cinephile’s clues where you have to mentally insert ‘something’ to make the definition grammatically correct.

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Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:49:47 +0000http://fifteensquared.net/?p=39825#comment-18153711ac: Where is the anagram indicator? Discernable? (by the way …able not …ible, surely? No doubt …able is in some dictionary, though.)
2dn: I don’t understand this: how is ‘dog-end’ defined by ‘put in tray’? It looks as if there is a verb ‘to dog-end’, but Chambers at any rate doesn’t give it and I’ve never heard of it.
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Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:32:01 +0000http://fifteensquared.net/?p=39825#comment-181485Thanks Rishi, I have fixed 8d.
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Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:54:18 +0000http://fifteensquared.net/?p=39825#comment-181467Pete